Abstract: At about 3:30 a.m. on November 21, 2011, Employee #1, with La Reina Market, was the supervisor of the store's tortilla-making department. While checking the setting of the wire that lifts the tortillas off of the rolls, he noticed that the first few tortillas were torn. In order to reach the wire to test it with a spatula, he removed the tortilla machine's gear box cover. While standing on a plastic crate beside the operating gears, Employee #1 tested the wire with the spatula. When he began withdrawing the spatula, his left fingers became caught between the gears. Employee #1 was hospitalized for an amputated little finger and lacerations to three other fingers.